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Besides knowing someone who will recommend you, how exactly do you even get an interview?
by vinhboy 17y ago
Besides knowing someone who will recommend you, how exactly do you even get an interview?
- mortenjorck 17y agoThe best way I know is to work on something innovative that gets some press.
- felixc 17y agoYou fill out an application and send in a resume. Works surprisingly well.
- timcederman 17y agoOnly if you went to the 'right' school or previously worked for the 'right' company. There are a lot of screens prior to a human reading your resume, and without a recommendation, you have a slim chance of a callback.
- j_baker 17y agoIt hasn't worked surprisingly well for me. I've been told by several people that Google's hiring department is a black hole.
- angelbob 17y agoThey troll LinkedIn a fair bit -- Google recruiters ask after me a couple of times a year.
- spudlyo 17y agoI too have been getting pinged by google recruiters from LinkedIn about once a quarter. I ignore them. I'm highly annoyed by what I consider to be bullshit interview questions, it's likely I'll never interview there.
- illumin8 17y agoI agree with you there. They have an annoying habit of contacting ideal candidates with years or even decades of real world experience, and asking them idiotic administrivia questions that I could find the answer to in 30 seconds with access to a search engine, yet probably don't have memorized unless you happen to have a photographic memory and memorized every RFC.
- nl 17y agoWhat do you consider "bullshit interview questions"? In my interview I didn't get any of the "how many pennies would fit in the pockets of all the window washers in Seattle"-type questions.
- dpritchett 17y agoI checked your LinkedIn profile and it appears you: * Live in the Bay area * Graduated from Carnegie Mellon * Specialize in C++ * Have an open source portfolio * Have mobile development experience Looks like you're low hanging fruit as far as Google recruiters are concerned - it's surely worth their time to call/email you every so often just in case your situation has changed.
- endtime 17y agoGo to Stanford or MIT. I know that may sound flippant, but my understanding is that Google really does have a very strong preference for hiring from big-name schools.
- alexgartrell 17y agoI've heard that contributing to their open source stuff regularly is a good way to get a recommendation. Edit: From their Chromium guys. They might have been dangling a carrot, in retrospect.